spend two weeks each on billboards along Oleander Drive, South College Road and the intersection of Gordon Road and Market Street, for a total of six weeks of exposure, Bower said.

The public messaging follows a March 1 letter the union sent to the City Council raising concerns about pay and benefits.

“…We find it extremely difficult to believe that City Council and management of this city consider employees a valued asset,” Bower wrote. He added that the city leaders have not committed to develop a long-term solution on pay and benefits.

While salaried and hourly employees are 9 percent below market overall, Sexton paid special attention to public safety workers. While fire pay overall is down, a starting firefighter here earns 21 percent below market compared to the top cities, she said.
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sounds more like an “alarm” for tax increase, not low pay to me. Why aren’t executive pay scale comparisons mentioned? Where can salaries be reduced so that you don’t have to tax the people instead of leaving pay inequities in place?

I think we can find money to do this without a tax increase. Why were the commissioners so ready to increase our taxes for a baseball stadium but now they have no money for the fire fighters which is public safety and what they were truely elected to take care of.

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Watchful eyes on government and politics in the Cape Fear region, with a focus on government spending. Raleigh bureau reporter Molly Parker, city of Wilmington reporter Julian March and New Hanover County reporter Ashley Withers contribute to this blog.